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flowerlike

flowerlike adjective: resembling a flower, especially in shape.

Adjective

flowerlike (comparative more flowerlike, superlative most flowerlike)

  1. Resembling a flower, especially in shape
    • The filter-feeding feather duster worms produce fantastic flower-like crowns of feathery appendages.2001, Julian Sprung, Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide, page 135
    • I designed clothes for flowerlike women, with rounded shoulders, full feminine busts and hand-span waists above enormous spreading skirts.2007 December 2, “Fashion”, in New York Times

Forms of flowerlike

comparativemore flowerlike
superlativemost flowerlike

Origin of flowerlike

From flower + -like. Piecewise doublet of flourlike.

Questions about flowerlike

What does flowerlike mean?
Flowerlike means resembling a flower, especially in shape.
What part of speech is flowerlike?
Flowerlike is an adjective.

Words near flowerlike in the dictionary

  1. flowerkind
  2. flowerless
  3. flowerlessness
  4. flowerlet
  5. flowerlets
  6. flowerlike
  7. flowerling
  8. flowerlings
  9. flowerly
  10. Flowerminx
  11. Flowerminxes

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